Show t INDOORS AND OUT 1 The Farm Orchard Garden and Household HINTS AflD NOTES FOE ALL 1 Early Plowing een Bye Gnther 1 try Apples Pink Eye Worte Obesity Make all needed re airs to th greenhouse green-house and its heating apparatus Rub the hands with a slice of raw potato to remove vegetable stains A little sulphur carefully burned in the cellar will destroy disease germs I Now that the raspberries and blackberries black-berries are gathered cut away the old canes Put a battered paper butter side down over jellies to keep them from moulding Sour milk may be sweetened and made fit for use in cakes fcy mixing a little soda Sow pansy seed at once if you wish to obtain early flowers next spring Buy the seed for quality not cheapness Encourage the poultry to forcge in train and nay fields after harvest Give a light breakfast and nothing till evening eve-ning Mix a little powdered charcoal with the chickens soft feetland it will assist digestion and prevent disease It is a purifier It is said that if a little parsley dipped in vinegar is Paten after onions the breath will scarcely disclose the odor of the onions Cut corn from thecob and miz itnot too thinlywith milk Add two or three beaten eggs pepper and salt to taste Bake half hour To be served rsa vegetable Cucumbers for pickles iould be watched every day and all those of a suitable size be gathered Cut awav all that have grown too largo unless wanted tor seed Green rye is growing in favor among dairymen as a forage crop for milch cows It not only causes an increase in the quantity of milk but the quality of cream and butter said to be improved by its use The hen product will fall off now and all surplus fowls should be fattened and dressed nicely for tablo use either at home or on the tables of those who are milling to pay lor them This will be the most profitable way to dispose of the hens Egg sauce to eat with puddings or dumplingsTwo eggs whipped until they are light stir in 1 cup of sugar and ponr on fi tablespoonfuls of boiling milk stirr the egg and sugar all the time Flavor with any extract that suits the taste Early plowing with frequent surface working at short intervals and keeping the manures near the surface is the best preparation for wheat The perfect condition of the seed bed is one of the most essential features and is easily enough accomplished with the best modern implements The great advantage of the creamery system is that it cools the milk quickly by means of ice and thus gets the greatest amount of cream It is very important that the milk be put in the creamery while yet warm from the cow In a large dairyevery cows milk should be carried away by a boy or man employed for this purpose The idea that sheep at pasture will live and thrive without water to drink is a serious and costly delusion to many farmers By eating when dew is on the grass they can get along with little water but that little they require a absolutely as any other stock or poor wool and poor condition will tell the story of their deprivation Select firm ripe tomatoes pare and slice them thick season with pepper and salt and sprinkle salt over each piece Place them in a skillet that has hot lard or butter in it and fry on both sidesa light brown When done make a gravy of 1 cup cream 1 teaspoon butter and 1 tablespoonful of flour to thicken it Let this heat through and pour over the tomatoes and serve At seasons cows in full flow of milk will need careful looking after lest their bags became caked and hard Rubbing with lard will relieve the soreness and will almost immediately be followed by an increa e of milk as nothing dries up a cow faster than a sore and feverish condition of the bag In some cases so much milk may be given as to require milking three times a day morning noon and night It has teen a matter of extensive belief in France that the drinking of water in considerable quantities has a tendancy to reduce obesity by increasing increas-ing the activity of oxidations in the system and favoring the burning away or accumulated fat The error of this idea has just been shown by Dr Debove who has proven that the quantity ef water taken has no influence on nutrition nutri-tion or body weight so long as the solid diet remains unchanged Ko one can now successfully dispute that well bred animals are the more profitaole hence the small farmer is just the one that cannot afford to rear any other kind In many ways he must compete at a disadvantage with the large iirmer and if he does fait t raise as good stock at least as they he can hardly make any money He cannot can-not Keep many animals hence can give each more of his personal attention taan the large farmer can and the purebred animals are the most grateful for such attention another reason why the small farmers should rear only such ExIt Ex-It should be the aim of every farmer tp keep his land in good healthy condition condi-tion It is much easier to keep land up than it is to bring it up when once it has run down The loss of time as well as the loss of crop are to be taken into consideration con-sideration Outside of the application of barnyard manure there is nothing equal to clover plowad in as a green crop occasionally We know that it looks to some as an extravagant plan to plow in a crop of clover but one trial will satisfy the farmer that it will pay him a hundred fold and it will require no argument thereafter to open his eyes to its value A correspondent of the Therapeut Gazette announces through its columns the virtues of castor oil in the removal of warts Constantly applying for from two to four or six weeks each daythat I is once a daYIt has not failed in mv hands says the writer in any case of atiy size or pug standing The time it I tales nllt y try the patience of the users t I e but if faithfully used they will ges tltetr reward lathe removal of the wart without with-out leaving any scar I have used it with some success in other growths and had benefit enough to merit fur h r trial It might he adds be a success in the removal certain kinds of caucer especially scirrhus forms Pinkeye is a term commonly given to inflammations about the eyes or nostrils nos-trils of the horse says the American Agriculturists but in most cases the a Jruet can be directly traced to an influenza which of itself assumes a variety vari-ety of iiuotoms The first attention is usually attracted by theduiopibn683 or debility of the horse the eye becomes red or bloodshot and the lids swollen and the light pains them The hind legs swell and other parts of the body become dropsical The first thing is to get the patient into a clean dry stall where he can get pure air If limbs are cold rub and bandage them or use liniments Give the following drench Sulphur five drachms cream of tartar two drachms salt one ounce Mix these with flaxseed tea In order to have a prettylooking hand the finger nails must be kept in good shape They should never be cut too short aa this deforms the finger ends and renders them stubby They should always project a trifle beyond the extremity of the finger and be pared only to a slight curve without approaching too much on the angles To preserve the halfmoon or lunula which borders the lower part of the nail and is thought a great beauty the skin must be kept from encroaching upon it bv pushing it back every morning with a blunt ivory instrument By this means the annoying hangnail will be prevented also Filing or scraping the nails fs very injurious as it tends to thicken their substance The nail brush should alone be used for cleaning and polishing the nails The time for gathering apples is October The fruit should be gathered before being exposed to severe frosts Cool dry weatheris the most favorable Most of the fruit must be gathered by hand and ladders ofvarious lengths are needed Scattered fruit on the ends of limbscan be reached by a fruit gatherer attached to a pole If baskets are used they should have hooks attached for hanging them to the ladder or limb of the tree Perhaps the most convenient arrangement for picking is a common grain bag with its mouth propped open with a stick and the upper and lower corners tied together This can be slung on the shoulder and both hands are left free for picking the fruit It is also very convenient to empty the apples from the bag as it can be placed in the bottom of the barrel and then withdrawn with-drawn depositing the fruit without the least bruising |